Government Gazette.

New Zealander, Volume 5, Issue 372, 7 November 1849, Page 4

Government Gazette.

Regulations issued hy His Excellency the Governor of New Ulster for the Management of the Crown Lands, and for the Guidance of Commissioners of Crown Lands, under the third clause of the " Crown Lands Ordinance," Session 10, No. 1.

Issue of Depasturing Licenses Outside the ! Boundaries of Proclaimed Hundreds. i I.— Upon the Assessment being paid to the Colonial Treasurer, in the terms of the 13th section of the Ordinance, he shall thereupon issue License, authorising the Stockholder, who has paid his assessment, to depasture Cattle upon the Waste Lands of the Crown during the ensuing year, commencing upon the Ist day of January then next ensuing. 2.— -Such Licenses will be of two kinds :— i. A License for a Defined Run. ii. A License to depasture upon Common Lands without the limits of a Hundred. 3. — For every License for a denned Run, the sum of Five Pounds shall be paid, and the license will be in the form prescribed by Schedule A, hereunto annexed. 4, — For every license to depasture on Common Land, the sum of 10s. 6d. shall be paid, the license will be in the form prescribed by Schedule 13, hereunto annexed. s.— Licenses to depasture upon Common Lands will be only granted to occupants of land held under Grant from the Crown, ivho may wish to feed cattle upon the adjacent Crown Land, in the proportion of sixteen head of great cattle, or one hundred head of small cattle, for every 80 acres held under grant from the Ciown. But no person shall claim the right for a greater extent of land than 320 acres. 6., — Pefure a license to depasture on Common Lands is granted, the applicant for such license will be required to deposit with the Commissioner of Crown Lauds, a return of the lands granted by the Crown, of which he is- in occupation, according to the form contained in Schedule C, heieunto annexed. 7.— A1l persons requiring unoccupied portions of the Crown Lands as defined runs, for the purpose of depasturing cattle, shall lodge a description of such land with the Commissioner of Crown Lands. 8.— s uch descriptions shall specify the boundaries and other particulars connected with the run, according to Schedule D, hereunto annexed. 9 —Such boundaries of land so described, as are not marked by natural boundaries, such as streams, &c, shall be marked by the occupants thereof, by lines of marked trees, by posts placed at intervals, or by some other method which will render them easily discernible. .o.— Persons desirous for the future to oc-

cupy runs must, in the first place, apply to the Surveyor General, and having obtained frjm him a certificate to the effect that such land is the property of the Crown., arid that no objection exists to their occupation of it, must lodge the same with the Commissioner of Crown Lands, who will thereupon notify that, the run is claimed by the holder of the certificate. Any person who shall have a run claimed by him, or any part thereof, unoccupied by stock for four months, shall be considered as having abandoned such run, or part thereof, which shall thereupon be given into the occupation of the first applicant for it. 1 1 . — It shall be in the power of the Commissioner of Crown Lands at any time to make such alteiations in the bourdaries of runs, as he may, upon enquiry, jucige to be just and expedient. 12. — Every proper facility will be afforded by the Government to persons desirous of purchasing homesteads on their runs, but it will not undertake to survey and offer for sale, any smaller block than fifty acres of land 13. — No person shall be entitled to dispute the claim of another person to any run described, according to these lcgulat^ons, unless the matter be brought before the < ommissioner of Crown Lands, within three months after the publication in the Government Gazette, of the nam« of the person claiming the run, and of the description of the run.